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ARCHITECTURAL DECORATIVE MATERIAL AND METH OD OE MAKING SAME.

No. 511,971.. Patented Jan. 2, 1894..

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FFICEQ LAFAYETTE \V. SEAVEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ARCHITECTURAL DECORATIVE MATERlAL AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 511,971, dated January 2, 1894.

Application filed January 14,1893. Serial No. 458,360. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LAFAYETTE W. SEAVEY,

of New York, in the county and State of New decorative panel or material of paper which will resist the action of the atmosphere and particularly of water to a greater extent than has been possible and may therefore be used for outside decoration.

Decorative panels, friezes, borders, bands, &c., for interior work have often been made of paper pulp or similar material which is pressed into a mold of the desired form while wet and is then allowed to dry. Such material is desirable on account of its toughness while dry and its lightness, but it is not suitable for outside work because water which runs over its surface is apt to find its way into the substance of the material and to produce quickly a disintegration which ruins the appearance unless the material has been prepared at considerable expense wit-h waterproof glues or cements.

It is the object of my invention to produce a material of the character described which can be manufactured cheaply but which will nevertheless shed water so effectually as to permit its use for outside decoration.

To this end my invention consists in the improved article hereinafter described and in the method of making the same.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a front view of a portion of a decorative frieze or border made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on the line 0c-w of Fig. 1, the texture being very much exaggerated to illustrate the invention.

The material is made up of layers of paper united by an adhesive substance to form a paper-board of the required thickness, but instead of using sheets of the width of the required panel or border or of disposing small regular pieces indiscriminately I use small irregular pieces. I first soak a sheet of paper in Water, allow the superfluous water to drip off, crumple or mangle the sheet by hand to loosen the fibers, smooth out the sheet, coat one side with an adhesive substance, and then tear off irregular pieces having a superficial area of about two or three inches. These small pieces I apply to the mold with the sticky surface away from themold,beginning at the top of the mold and working downward in such a manner that each succeeding piece shall overlap the piece next above. I form the successivelayers in the same manner but the sheets of paper are preferably coated on both sides with the adhesive substance and the pieces may be somewhat larger. When a proper thickness has been built up the mass is allowed to dry in the mold and is then removed. In this condition it is ready for use or it may be treated or finished in any desired manner, a coat of waterproof paint being preferably applied to the inside in order to prevent moisture from working through. As the pieces of the first layer are thoroughly wet with water and are small they can be pressed into the mold to take its contour exactly. At the sametime, as there is no adhesive substance between the first layer and the mold, the dry form can be removed easily from the mold. If the pieces are laid in the mold with some care it will be found that the material will effectually resist the weather as there will be no crevises opening upward into which water may run and remain to cause saturation of the material. The material thus formed is removed from the mold as soon as it may be handled and is thoroughly dried. Subsequently it may be painted on one or both sides to protect it from dampness.

It will be observed that my main object is to so construct the decorative material that no joint or lap shall open upward, and if the work be done with reasonable care it will be 1. The method of making'decorative matepaper adhering together andteachlayer be I ingformedofsmall pieces of paper overlapping each other from'the top downward, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

LAFAYETTE W. SEAVEY. Witnesses:

A. N. J ESBERA, A. WIDDER. 

